Factionalism and internal division is a cross that virtually all dominant political parties operating in representative democracies have to bear. In this book, Dr Boucek seeks to explain how this inherent factionalism that has caused the downfall of many political leaders can also prolong office tenure by containing conflict and preventing the exit of party dissidents. By surve...(展开全部)

小瓦尔迪默•奥兰多•基（Valdimer Orlando Key, Jr.），美国著名政治学家。先后任教于加州大学洛杉矶分校、霍普金斯大学、耶鲁大学、哈佛大学，曾担任美国政治学会主席。主要著作有《政治、政党和压力集团》、《南方政治：州和国家》（Southern Politics in States and Nation）、《公共舆论与美国民主》（Public Opinion and American Democracy）等。

Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, th...(展开全部)

Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, th...(展开全部)

Enn is a sixteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear! From the Locus Award-winning short story by Neil Gaiman--one of the most celebrated aut...(展开全部)

This is the first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the "underground" - featuring the experiments, practices, and polemics of the 1960s and 1970s.In "Architecture or Techno-Utopia", Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set o...(展开全部)

This is the first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the "underground" - featuring the experiments, practices, and polemics of the 1960s and 1970s.In "Architecture or Techno-Utopia", Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set o...(展开全部)

Most people agree that animals count morally. But how, exactly, should we take animals into account? According to a prominent position in contemporary philosophical discussions, animals and people have the very same moral status, so in our moral deliberations the otherwise similar interests of people and animals should be given the same weight and consideration. In How to Count...(展开全部)

Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the similar interests of animals and people should be given the very same consideration. In How to Count Animals, more or less, Shelly Kag...(展开全部)

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.</p> "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"</p> "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a ch...(展开全部)